NOMINATIONS

criteria for funding

There are two types of efforts we support, which distinguish an Emergent Fund grant from thousands other worthy projects and organizations:

Efforts that support emergent strategies that help communities respond to rapidly changing conditions. This includes resisting new or amplified threats and building power to move a proactive agenda.

Efforts seeking long-term social justice and economic justice in a political and social climate that seeks to dismantle such efforts.

Additional considerations:

Emergent work: New solutions responding to rapidly changing conditions in the current political environment

Visionary and Power Building: Seeks transformational systemic changes rooted in social and economic justice. Develops community power through organizing and/or leadership development (including through new tools), direct action, and/or cultural work

Leadership from affected communities

Intersectional Analysis: Engages multiple identities and multi-racial alliance building as core to theory of change

Endorsed: Recommended by a member of the Nominations Network

Right size of need: The level of Emergent Fund support is appropriate to the work

If you'd like to make a nomination, please use the form to your right. You may make up to three nominations, and may nominate your own organization.

Nominations can be ideas, collaborations, campaigns, or organizations, whether or not they are fully formed; don't worry about your notes being perfect or comprehensive. All notes from our nomination form will be shared with our Advisory Council for review.

The Emergent Fund Partners and Advisory Council are proud to have raised and granted out over $1 million in the first 100 days of this Administration. We are currently pausing to take stock of this work and to evaluate next steps for the Fund.